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Richard Taylor

Bio: Richard Taylor is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nuclear weapon & Peace movement. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 51 citations.

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TL;DR: The mainstream: CND in embryo - the National Council Against Nuclear Weapons Tests formation and advance - the early years of CND, 1958-1960 problems and decline - CND 1961-1965.
Abstract: Introduction. Part 1 The mainstream: CND in embryo - the National Council Against Nuclear Weapons Tests formation and advance - the early years of CND, 1958-1960 problems and decline - CND 1961-1965. Part 2 The radicals: the Direct Action Committee - Gandhian pacifism and the nuclear issue the Committee of 100 - mass civil disobedience, radical politics and the peace movement. Part 3 The Socialist dimension: the Labour movement and the peace issue, 1957-1964 Marxists and nuclear disarmament postscript - nuclear protest and radical change. Bibliography. Index.

52 citations


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Nina Tannenwald1
22 Sep 2009
TL;DR: Tannenwald as discussed by the authors traces the rise of the nuclear taboo, the forces that produced it, and its influence on US leaders, and analyzes four critical instances where US leaders considered using nuclear weapons (Japan 1945, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War 1991).
Abstract: Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of 'deterrence' in favour of what she calls a nuclear taboo - a widespread inhibition on using nuclear weapons - which has arisen in global politics. Drawing on newly released archival sources, Tannenwald traces the rise of the nuclear taboo, the forces that produced it, and its influence, particularly on US leaders. She analyzes four critical instances where US leaders considered using nuclear weapons (Japan 1945, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War 1991) and examines how the nuclear taboo has repeatedly dissuaded US and other world leaders from resorting to these 'ultimate weapons'. Through a systematic analysis, Tannenwald challenges conventional conceptions of deterrence and offers a compelling argument on the moral bases of nuclear restraint as well as an important insight into how nuclear war can be avoided in the future.

258 citations

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Nina Tannenwald1
TL;DR: Gavin, a principal promoter in the development of tactical nuclear weapons, wrote, "Nuclear weapons will become conventional for several reasons, among them cost, effectiveness against enemy weapons, and ease of handling".
Abstract: Gavin, a principal promoter in the U.S. military of the development of tactical nuclear weapons, wrote, “Nuclear weapons will become conventional for several reasons, among them cost, effectiveness against enemy weapons, and ease of handling.”1 Indeed, during the 1950s numerous U.S. leaders fully expected that a nuclear weapon would become “just another weapon.” Secretary of State John Foster Dulles accepted “the ultimate inevitability” that tactical nuclear weapons would gain “conventional” status.2 Adm. Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Dwight Eisenhower, predicted in 1956 that the use of nuclear weapons “would become accepted throughout the world just as soon as people could lay their hands upon them.”3 These leaders were articulating a view with a long tradition in the history of weapons and warfare: a weapon once introduced inevitably comes to be widely accepted as legitimate. In reality, however, nuclear weapons have come to be deaned as abhorrent and unacceptable weapons of mass destruction, with a taboo on their use. This taboo is associated with a widespread revulsion toward nuclear weapons and broadly held inhibitions on their use. The opprobrium has come to apply to all nuclear weapons, not just to large bombs or to certain types or uses of nuclear weapons. It has developed to the point that uses of nuclear weapons that were once considered plausible by at least some U.S. decisionmakers—for example, tactical battleaeld uses in limited wars and direct threats to deter enemies from conventional attack—have been severely delegitimized and are practically unthinkable policy options. Thomas Stigmatizing the Bomb

169 citations

Book
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Gienow-Hecht as discussed by the authors discusses the power of culture in international relations and the role of women in the development of the arts in the 20th-century art world.
Abstract: List of Illustrations Editors' Preface List of Contributors PART I: METHODOLOGY Introduction: On the Diversity of Knowledge and the Community of Thought: Culture and International History Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht Chapter 1. The Power of Culture in International Relations Beate Jahn PART II: CULTURE AND THE STATE Chapter 2. The Great Derby Race: Strategies of Cultural Representation at Nineteenth-Century World Exhibitions Wolfram Kaiser Chapter 3. Manliness and "Realism": The Use of Gendered Tropes in the Debates on the Philippine-American and Vietnam Wars Fabian Hilfrich Chapter 4. A Family Affair? Gender, the U.S. Information Agency, and Cold War Ideology, 1945-1960 Laura A. Belmonte PART III: CULTURAL TRANSMISSION, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS Chapter 5. France and Germany after the Great War: Businessmen, Intellectuals and Artists in Non-Governmental European Networks Guido Mu ller Chapter 6. Small Atlantic World: U.S. Philanthropy and the Expanding International Exchange of Scholars after 1945 Oliver Schmidt Chapter 7. Atlantic Alliances: Cross-Cultural Communication and the 1960s Student Revolution Philipp Gassert Chapter 8. Forecasting the Future: Future Studies as International Networks of Social Analysis in the 1960s and 1970s in Western Europe and the United States Alexander Schmidt-Gernig PART IV: COMMENTS AND CRITICISM OR WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Chapter 9. Cultural Approaches to International Relations - A Challenge? Volker Depkat Chapter 10. States, International Systems, and Intercultural Transfer: A Commentary Eckart Conze Chapter 11. "Total Culture" and the State-Private Network: A Commentary Scott Lucas Chapter 12. Gender, Tropes, and Images: A Commentary Marc Frey Chapter 13. Internationalizing Ideologies: A Commentary Seth Fein PART V: ANNOTATED SOURCES Chapter 14. The Invention of State and Diplomacy: The First Political Testament of Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg (1698) Volker Depkat Chapter 15. The Rat Race for Progress: A Punch Cartoon of the Opening of the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition Wolfram Kaiser Chapter 16. Race and Imperialism: An Essay from the Chicago Broad Ax Fabian Hilfrich Chapter 17. A Document from the Harvard International Summer School Scott Lucas Chapter 18. Max Lerner's "Germany HAS a Foreign Policy" Thomas Reuther Chapter 19. Excerpt from Johan Galtung's "On the Future of the International System" Alexander Schmidt-Gernig Chapter 20. The "Children and War" Virtual Forum: Voices of Youth and International Relations Marie Thorsten Index

87 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual approach is proposed to identify the messages within social movements that remain sensitive to their complexity, dynamism and heterogeneity, through a critique of the concept of interpretative f...
Abstract: Social movements contain structures of beliefs and values that guide critical action and aid activists' understandings. These are worthy of interrogation, not least because they contain points of articulation with ideational formations found in both mainstream politics and academia. They offer an alternative view of society, economy and polity that is grounded in protagonists' experience and struggle. However, the ideational content of social movements is often obscured by a focus on particular, immediate goals; by their orientation to certain forms of action; and by the mediated, simplified nature of their communication. Additionally, recent social movements display a tendency to coalition action, bringing a diverse set of political understandings in concert on highly specific campaigns. This conceptual article seeks an approach to identifying the messages within social movements that remains sensitive to their complexity, dynamism and heterogeneity. Through a critique of the concept of ‘interpretative f...

72 citations

Book
12 Nov 2012
TL;DR: In Search of Power as discussed by the authors, a history of the era of civil rights, decolonization and Black Power is presented, where detailed connections between African Americans' involvement in international affairs and how they shaped American foreign policy are discussed.
Abstract: In Search of Power is a history of the era of civil rights, decolonization and Black Power. In the critical period from 1956 to 1974, the emergence of newly independent states worldwide and the struggles of the civil rights movement in the United States exposed the limits of racial integration and political freedom. Dissidents, leaders and elites alike were linked in a struggle for power in a world where the rules of the game had changed. Brenda Gayle Plummer traces the detailed connections between African Americans' involvement in international affairs and how they shaped American foreign policy, integrating African American history, the history of the African Diaspora and the history of United States foreign relations. These topics, usually treated separately, not only offer a unified view of the period but also reassess controversies and events that punctuated this colorful era of upheaval and change.

70 citations